Netanyahu & Boehner: How Israel went from being a Democratic to a Republican Project by Juan Cole Jan 29, 2014

THE CRIME: Boehner colluding with a foreign power (Israel-Netanyahu) to undermine a sitting president = Stop a sitting president from negotiations with a former enemy to reduce the likelihood of war.

THE CRIME: Speaker of House after WW II colluded in 1947 for Kurdish leader to stop President Truman from his Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan.

THE CRIME: Speaker of the House in 1971 colluded with Spain’s Franco without Nixon’s knowledge to address Congress and stop Nixon’s deal with China.

STOPPED CRIME: Eisenhower was eager in 1950s to have good relations with Egypt’s Nasser and reacted harshly to Israel’s war of aggression supported by UK + France in 1956. Eisenhower made David Ben Gurion relinquish the Sinai Peninsula back to its lawful owner, Egypt, in 1957. = Stopped Israel’s aggressive expansionism.

A Speaker would NOT have dared try to treat a white president that way.

But Netanyahu gleefully joined in this naked power GRAB with GOP signals a turning point in the DOMINANCE ATTEMPTS of Israel itself.

GOP led by wealthy and established WASPs = Private business, if only untaxed and unregulated, could create a dynamic economy and a tide that would lift all boats. = COMPLETE FAILURE = GREST DEPRESSION + GREAT BUSH RECESSION

1960s Israel = Heyday of Democratic Israeli Labor of Levi Eshkol = Against unregulated capitalism + Favor government Lifting people out of Poverty.

CRIME: Democratic Johnson in 1967 cheered Israel in that war = Israel fired the first shot.

1990s Israel = Million immigrants to Israel from USSR (50% Jewish) = NEOCONS BORN = Anti-Socialism + Anti-Labor = New infinitesimal class of Billionaires emerged, and workers began having difficulty paying rent. Class divisions increased. Billionaires to deflect a backlash of downwardly mobile mass of workers, the Right pushed the colonization of the Palestinian West Bank = Essentially subsidized housing on stolen Palestinian property kept living expenses bearable and had the further advantage of creating a new constituency that would vote for right wing pro-colonization governments = socialism + colonialism VIOLENCE for Political Gain.

Israel = WAR CRIMINALS = GOP FAKEDWAR CRIMINALS

ISRAEL = Land of Capitalists and IPOs = Handful of Billionaires = Netanyahu

GOP = Assumes whiteness and property = ONLY ‘REAL’ AMERICANS + Some less intelligent or less informed white working class attached = ELITISTS IN FULL CONTROL

Apartheid Afrikaners = Decided Japanese are “white” for business purposes

GOP = DEGRADE African-Americans as Israelis DEGRADE Palestinians = FAR-RIGHT wing GOP-Israeli Discourse = Racism functions the same way in making the Israeli working class unwilling to ally with Palestinian workers nowadays (Zachary Lockman showed that such alliances were common in the 1930s).